Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he next plans to publish his Department's quarterly updates on human rights conditions in countries of concern.

Updates were published online on 15 July. We did not publish quarterly updates in April 2015 due to purdah constraints. Instead, the 15 July updates covered the period 1 January - 30 June. For future updates we will release our Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report plus a mid-year update on human rights priority countries. This will be a more efficient process allowing us to dedicate more time to tracjing and influencing events.